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Checkpoint for Thursday 23 December 2010
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What makes Christmas day special for 2000 Aucklanders
6:58 PM.Twelve months of preparation, five hundred volunteers and about one thousand kilograms of food. Audio
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Waatea News for 23 December 2010
6:52 PM.News from the Waatea team. Audio
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Afghan woman still waiting for reconstructive surgery
6:37 PM.An 18-year-old Afghan woman whose mutilated face appeared on the cover of Time Magazine is still in the United States awaiting surgery to reconstruct her nose and ears amputated by the Taliban. Audio
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Evening Sports News for 23 December 2010
6:34 PM.An update from the RNZ sports team. Audio
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Can science help you keep new year's resolutions?
6:27 PM.As the year draws to a close, many of us are already thinking about what we'd like to change in 2011. Audio
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US research into police officer deaths
6:23 PM.As the debate continues in this country on arming the police, research in the United States shows rural officers patrolling by themselves have a greater risk of their own guns being used against them.
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Evening Business News for 23 December 2010
6:19 PM.The British-based mobile phone giant, Vodafone, says the regulator cannot assume that slashing the cost of switching phone calls between networks will mean lower prices for users. Audio
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New rule to force higher safety compliance standards
6:12 PM.A new rule will force aviation adventure companies to lift safety compliance standards from next year. Audio
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Analysis of MPs' pay
6:07 PM.More now on the increase in MPs' pay, which has been released this afternoon. Audio
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Angel ring credited with saving fisherman
5:53 PM.A fisherman swept off rocks at South Piha west of Auckland yesterday owes his life to a rescue device known as an angel ring. Audio
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New graduates' incomes drop for first time since Asian crisis
5:50 PM.The incomes of new graduates dropped last year for the first time since 1998. Audio
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Waatea News for 23 December 2010
5:46 PM.News from the Waatea team. Audio
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Thames GPs to work in hospital Emergency Department
5:42 PM.GPs in Thames will soon be working in the local hospital as part of a pilot project designed to ease growing workforce pressures. Audio
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PEDA loses out on public funding
5:37 PM.The company at the centre of a controversy over money promised in the Government's May budget is now not getting any public funding. Audio
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Minister says no review of Child Youth and Family planned
5:34 PM.The Minister for Social Development, Paula Bennett, is not planning to review Child Youth and Family in the wake of an horrific child abuse case before the court. Audio
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Evening Sports News for 23 December 2010
5:31 PM.An update from the RNZ sports team. Audio
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Crafar receivers still confident they will sell
5:24 PM.The receivers for 16 of the Crafar dairy farms say they are still confident of selling them - despite having rubbised suggestions that a bid by Landcorp could be revived, after a Chinese bid came… Read more Audio
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Evening Business News for 23 December 2010
5:22 PM.News from the business sector including a market report. Audio
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Regulator wants termination rates to drop sharply
5:18 PM.The Commerce Commission says it should be much cheaper than currently is, to switch phone calls and texts between mobile networks. Audio
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Finance Minister says another recession a possiblity
5:14 PM.The Finance Minister Bill English says the country could go back into recession next year yet still be on track for growth that's built on a stronger economy. Audio
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Contractor reacts to news of partial payment of money owed
5:12 PM.The construction company, Chris Yeats builders, lost three employees in the mine disaster. Audio
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Pike River coal contractors to receive some money
5:09 PM.New Zealand Oil and Gas and the BNZ have agreed to give money they're owed from the Pike River Coal MIne to cover the wages of the 13 contractors who died in the disaster. Audio
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MPs get a pay rise
5:07 PM.MPs are getting a pay rise and any hit from their international travel perks being scrapped will be cushioned by a boost to their wages. Audio
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Checkpoint Top Stories for Thursday 23 December 2010
5:00 PM.MPs get a pay rise. Some Pike River contractors will now get paid and predictions of more economic gloom. Audio